Jobs in Brighton and Hove
The jobs employers in Brighton and Hove advertise most, what they pay, and the kinds of work Brighton and Hove has more of than the rest of the UK.
New job adverts a quarter9,800on average, July 2025 to June 2026
Jobs advertised399 of 412occupations had at least one advert in the year
Most advertised jobs
ONS · online job adverts · July 2025 to June 2026The 25 jobs with the most new adverts in Brighton and Hove, as a quarterly average over the last year. Change is on the year before. Pay is typical full-time pay in South East, or across the UK where ONS publishes no regional figure.
- 1Solicitor704 a quarter↑ 3.8% on last year£53,300
- 2Care worker205 a quarter↓ 4.7% on last year£28,200
- 3Chefs192 a quarter↓ 14% on last year£30,300
- 4Business development manager184 a quarter→ 0% on last year£61,600
- 5Business sales executives170 a quarter↑ 6.2% on last year£39,700
- 6Cleaner169 a quarter↓ 7.4% on last year£24,000
- 6Kitchen and catering assistants169 a quarter↓ 11% on last year£23,400
- 8Legal professionals n.e.c.167 a quarter↓ 3.5% on last year£35,500 UK
- 9Sales assistant157 a quarter↓ 0.6% on last year£25,300
- 10Book-keepers, payroll managers and wages clerks141 a quarter↑ 68% on last year£32,700
- 11Other administrative occupations n.e.c.132 a quarter↓ 16% on last year£27,600
- 12Software developer128 a quarter→ 0% on last year£52,800
- 13Legal associate professionals122 a quarter↑ 18% on last year£34,700 UK
- 14Records clerks and assistants119 a quarter↓ 13% on last year£28,100
- 15Other registered nursing professionals119 a quarter↓ 7% on last year£42,000
- 16Nursing auxiliaries and assistants111 a quarter↓ 4.7% on last year£28,100
- 17Human resources officer109 a quarter↓ 6.6% on last year£35,100
- 18Customer service occupations n.e.c.103 a quarter↑ 0.3% on last year£27,500
- 19IT support technician101 a quarter↓ 16% on last year£35,300
- 20Financial adviser99 a quarter↑ 86% on last year£41,400
- 21Business and financial project management professionals93 a quarter↑ 54% on last year£59,800
- 22Specialist medical practitioners and consultants91 a quarter↓ 5.7% on last year£80,200
- 23Receptionist87 a quarter↓ 19% on last year£25,400
- 24Early education and childcare practitioners84 a quarter↑ 4.3% on last year£22,500
- 25Human resource managers and directors78 a quarter↑ 8.3% on last year£64,600
What Brighton and Hove has more of
ONS · online job adverts · July 2025 to June 2026Jobs that make up a bigger share of adverts in Brighton and Hove than across the UK. Solicitor adverts are 8.6 times as common.
Share of adverts compared with the UKSame as UK (1×)
Only jobs with at least 40 adverts in Brighton and Hove over the year are shown.Nearby areas
- Adur
- Arun
- Ashford
- Basingstoke and Deane
- Bracknell Forest
- Buckinghamshire
- Canterbury
- Cherwell
- Chichester
- Crawley
- Dartford
- Dover
- East Hampshire
- Eastbourne
- Eastleigh
- Elmbridge
- Epsom and Ewell
- Fareham
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Gosport
- Gravesham
- Guildford
- Hart
- Hastings
- Havant
- Horsham
- Isle of Wight
- Lewes
- Maidstone
- Medway
- Mid Sussex
- Milton Keynes
- Mole Valley
- New Forest
- Oxford
- Portsmouth
- Reading
- Reigate and Banstead
- Rother
- Runnymede
- Rushmoor
- Sevenoaks
- Slough
- South Oxfordshire
- Southampton
- Spelthorne
- Surrey Heath
- Swale
- Tandridge
- Test Valley
- Thanet
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Tunbridge Wells
- Vale of White Horse
- Waverley
- Wealden
- West Berkshire
- West Oxfordshire
- Winchester
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Woking
- Wokingham
- Worthing
Sources
- Job adverts, what Brighton and Hove has more of
- ONS, online job adverts by local authority (Textkernel), July 2025 to June 2026. An official statistic in development; counts are new online adverts, not every vacancy. Quarters ONS withheld are left out of averages.
- Typical pay
- ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, full-time employees
Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.